When the goddess culture was stolen and buried so too were women's rites of passage into our wild intuitive femininity and maturity.<br><br><br><br>With <I>Maiden to Mother</I> Sarah Durham Wilson excavates these ancient rites guiding us through a sacred and crucial initiation from the immature Maiden into the archetypal Mother—the powerful safe compassionate full-bloom feminine life force that exists within all of us.<br><br><br><br>Becoming the Mother is every woman's birthright—regardless of whether or not she raises children. The Mother is who we needed as a child who we were meant to be in this life and who the world needs us to be now.<br><br><br><br>Wilson teaches that while pre-patriarchal cultures honored women's natural cycles today's society infantilizes women idolizing youthful traits such as 'pretty pleasing and polite' in order to keep us distracted and dependent.<br><br><br><br>In this journey you will travel with Inanna—the ancient Sumerian goddess who ventured through the Underworld to meet her severed dark sister and emerged fully integrated and empowered.<br><br><br><br>Wilson helps women heal the Mother Wound and dismantle our internalized patriarchy so we may live with authenticity and feast on the richness of life.
